Indeed, it’s not really clear to me that operating systems is a valid academic field at all. If someone had axed its funding (the dirtiest word in the English language has seven letters and starts with “F”) in 1980, how different would your computer be?
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If abject failure were an obstacle to continued funding, most of “computer science” would have ceased to exist sometime in the ’90s.
Keith Irwin
Plenty of tropes, not much Zen.
